The Unique knowledge that really matters

What do surrender and meditation represent? This is our subject in this meeting. It is not the words themselves that matter, but what lies beyond them. After all, neither answers to questions nor the questions themselves are of relevance in Satsang. In general, you spend your entire life searching for answers; people are looking for answers. So, impelled by a fixed idea for this search, you have been acquiring and accumulating knowledge since childhood.

What kind of knowledge can you get here? If you enter this room to acquire more knowledge, I have a question to ask you: what knowledge may be more important to you than the fact that you already Are? You already ARE! What knowledge can be more important than this? But you still spend your whole life looking for more knowledge, and what for?

When you awaken to your Real Identity, to your Real Nature, you no longer care about knowledge, for it is only to fill the egoic mind. The heart of the Sage is already complete, not needing to be filled. The mind of the Sage has disappeared, so no content is needed. In Satsang, we have only one Knowledge that really matters: the Knowledge of the Truth of Being!

While the egoic mind is present, you can continue to acquire worldly knowledge and be proud of it. People are very proud of all the knowledge they have gained, but what is that for? How long will this kind of knowledge last, make you feel important and so proud of? It may seem I am despising knowledge, but this is not true; it has also its usage, but it cannot provide you Self-realization, God's Realization, supreme Happiness, the release of suffering, the end of fear.

Then, your knowledge will last until that brain mechanism is harmed, deleting part of the memory. This may happen during body life-time or when the whole brain mechanism collapses together with the body. Nevertheless, this Knowledge that You Are is beyond the body, the brain; it is beyond history and this world.

So here the question is: "Who am I?" While you are here, tell me about who you are and not about what you know; speak of your own direct experience in yourself; tell me about Meditation. Do you know what Meditation is? Meditation is not to lose sight of Yourself!

This Consciousness, this Presence is the proof of Divine Reality, of What is out of time. This is the Awakening of Wisdom, the true Knowledge. Then, You know that You Are, and this cannot be remembered nor forgotten, lost nor burned by fire, nor can it disappear with the death of the body or with the disappearance of objects around you. That, which is beyond the mind, has neither birth nor death, it is your True, Real Nature; it is your Being. So, when you come to Satsang, you are facing the Truth, the real Knowledge, which is the Knowledge of God.

Do you know why people are afraid of death? Because they do not know Meditation and they have lost sight of their True Identity. They are prisoners of the known, of the knowledge; they are trapped in the past, in memory, in history. When you are in your Real Nature, which is Meditation, you do not lose sight of your True Nature, and then there is nothing left to lose or to gain. So, you are free, absolutely free. In your Real Nature, you are neither a man nor a woman, you are neither a young man nor a child - these are all concepts within illusion, dream,maya. The enprisonment is to be attached to this.

When your body was born, your parents, relatives, they all celebrated, they were smiling and proud. Now, when this body dies, everyone will moan, weep, and mourn. This is maya, the illusion. Science says that over 80% of your body is water, so you are just a small drop in the ocean, in the universe of water. So, this body is water that goes back to water, is mineral that goes back to the ground, but there is no one inside that drop. Therefore, there is no reason to rejoice or to mourn, for this is only an event in maya, in the divine dream.

Do you know why it's so beautiful to be here? Because now you have the opportunity to discover that you are not this body and to establish yourself in the only Knowledge that really matters: to know who You Are. You Are What You Are, and that's all that matters!

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 4th, 2018. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm Local Time: Brazil BRT, except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please visit: http://mestregualberto.com/agenda/encontros-online